Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c23b1495b17e34b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-20 16:28:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a81b5de126e1c56a4b86cb14a0daad60 SHA-1: c371f986a745dc101b07cf2b638f70d6dededea7 SHA-256: c23b1495b17e34b487c704c6146854b80456004f2f9f8d578a7611bd11c2598b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the heuristics strongly suggest a malicious redirection pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://artinterior.bg/userfiles/file/97828726805.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/donexijomowuverutabom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geologocarmignani.com/userfiles/files/bapinexizazafutapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uc-kushiro.net/images/library/File/53001835848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idrogastermoclima.it/Utentifile/FCKPage/file/pepujimigixofubifisukug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homesunshinepharma.com/upload/files/9618572085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viviapalermo.com/userfiles/files/fanepemuruduxabeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoverservice.be/gallery/file/dowelizazowoxifewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhenganquan.com/userfiles/file/20210912175607_1388172295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tssch.in/tssch/application/admin/uploads/file/fosafebirusulitedovek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibiucuratenie.ro/fckeditor/userfiles/file/terusebavivakugupukagoxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiuneavalentina.ro/app/webroot/file/ropawozisutete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakedua.com/contents/files/nodaremibajukud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilaxlabs.com/userfiles/files/36530571028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tchid.net/userfiles/file/kojenapiseraxafej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonikqnc.com/upload/editor/file/1631461127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atrsara.ir/resource/files/3263550523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/84323077276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://v-rshine.com/upload/images/files/dewined.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalcenterstudio.it/userfiles/files/30960157479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdkuysuujk.handysociality.com/upload/files/75130825979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613db00781928---80935699558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-johnson.com/Uploadfiles/files/munefem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d78bf617b23203c7f3442f2a3e3d400/7475079889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138891842652---namifodupesigosetudaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=wcb2+play+storePDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000db17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB17 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f329.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF329 17708 bytes
SHA-256: 4634295a27f076c837800c916be3fd5ad12576640d632a356fb22b607fe41a89
font_02_sfnt_off00012123.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12123 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 001812b382878e08365017e2ac1ecaa4ce7bdaaec441592b2ecda6b356b83760